Centre For Global Development/ Senior Fellow and Director for Europe Owen Barder co-authors an op-ed for The Globe & Mail on Canada's opportunity to improve its commitment to development. ... DEVELOPED NATIONS MUST MOVE ‘BEYOND AID’

“The past 50 years have seen unprecedented progress on almost every dimension of human well-being, many of these improvements have been supported by foreign aid. There is much more to do in this regard”.

"But, people from developing countries are clear that development policy must mean more than giving aid. Developing countries want to benefit more from the resources and services they supply to the world. They do not want aid as compensation for unfair global trade rules; they want the rules changed. They do not want compensation for the damage done to the environment by industrialized countries; they want the destruction of our planet to stop...".

Message from Owen Barder ( development economist and Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development) addressing wealthy nations in a Canadian newspaper... READ MORE